Myths about Canada's Health Care System.

Myths about Canada's Health Care System.

September 29th, 2007

Good Luck in your race.

Mr. Tory was correct, (I am historically a Liberal) we already have
priviate systems delivering in the public system under medicare.

My suggestion is to change the payment system to reward health, ie
doctors on a salary system like in Italy; make it a true public
system.

Doctors on a salary, have no motivation to increase volume of visits
to attain a level of income. (Unless they have invested in MRI
machines, etc.etc.etc.). A salary would change the focus to
prevention, and hopefully the whole system will benefit, by reducing
costs for testing, and treating illness in hospitals.

Anyway, as the researcher who discovered anti-truths in 1994, and
discovered how 'half-truths' were being used in the Children's Aid
Society to attack fathers and family, I present to you some insights
into the deception in Ontario Health Care system; as the old adage
goes, 'the truth will set us free'.

Caesar J. B. Squitti
(education taxes should go to educate all children, not merely school
systems and school boards)


Having listened to the leadership debate in this upcoming provincial
election, it appears that all three leaders are unaware of the true
nature of Canada's Health Care System; as the saying goes the devil
lies in the details.

Let me take a moment to bring to your attention several important key
factors, including some myths of Canada's Health Care system that
politicians must deal with.

1. It is a public system. False it is merely publically funded.

2. It is a public system. False, most doctors are privately
incorporated, for profit businesses, that are rewarded for volume, for
visits, not for quality care, and prevention.

3. We cannot have private for profit entities. False, we already do,
most all clinics are privately owned, some hospitals ie St. Josephs in
Thunder Bay, are privately owned, but supply the public with services
paid for by medicare.

Non-profit hospitals, normally operate in the red, and the government
covers the deficit. The for-profit, get paid the same fees and must
operate in the black.

4. Non-profit services are better and cheaper than for-profit
services.

Not necessarily, non-profit systems, have employees that are paid a
salary, etc, so the profits are internalized. The comparison merely
on a label is misleading.

5. Public hospitals are cheaper than private hospitals. Not really,
public hospitals capital costs are paid for through tax dollars,
private hospitals capital costs are paid through with private
investments as well as taxpayers dollars..

6. There is a doctor shortage in Ontario. Not really, there are alot
of foreign doctors who cannot practise because of the red tape by the
College of Physicians. Problem is since doctors are self employed,
more doctors would reduce their incomes, so the doctors union restrict
a very simple supply of doctors.

7. The system treats problems and promotes prevention. Well that is
not a priority, and definitely not a priority that is rewarded
financially. You see the current 'payment per visit' penalizes
prevention, and treating problems, rather the current system rewards
repeat visits, referrals, unnecessary testing and inefficiency. Dr.
Silas Kung, PHD physics, confirms that here in North America we tend
to treat symptoms, and not the core problem.

8. Canada's Health care system is the best, better than that of the
USA. Well yes, it is better than that of the US, Canada ranked 30th,
while the American system was ranked 36th. Seldom do they compare
Canada's health care system to that of France and Italy, ranked 1st
and 2nd.

9. Nurses are equally involved in decision making in hospitals.
Wrong, our local hospital has only one nurse on department
committees, and a non voting position.

There is also the problem of nurses being overworked, and a tendency
for hospitals to hire part time to save on benefits to nurses,
creating a more difficult condition for patients with too much nurse
turnover during the day.

10. Quality control within the system is non-existant. Of the cases
brought forward to the College of Physicians and Surgeons (a self
regulating component that the Toronto Star found to be 'sweeping
complaints' under a rug) very few cases of complaints are sent to
their quality control department for review, and analysis to improve
the system. Why would you want to improve the system, when 'the fee
per visit' rewards inefficieny ?

11. Research is driven by discovering a cure for disease. That is
partly true, the focus of most mainstream research is to find a
'patentable drug' that will treat the disease and or symptoms. Dr.
Evangelos Michelakis, a professor at the U of A Department of
Medicine, has shown that dichloroacetate (DCA) causes regression in
several cancers, including lung, breast, and brain tumors however most
companies will not do research on this chemical since it cannot be
patentable. The same truth holds true with ancient herbs such as
garlic, and which are mostly excluded from modern day 'scientific
research".

Conclusions:

The many myths within Canada's Health care system tends to support a
deep truth, and that is that The Current Doctors Association is trying
to maintain control over its market by restricting the supply of
doctors, and not allowing other 'private' entities to organize
themselves to provide the same services to be paid through by
Medicare, by employing deceptive myths that stiffle critical analysis
of the system through such deceptive statements as 'we should not
privatize the system', when as presented the system is mostly operated
through private mechanisms, a fact confirmed by former head of the
Canadian Medical Association, Dr. Albert Schumacher, on TV Ontario's
"The Agenda" hosted by Steve Paikin, on September 28th who stated
quite clearly that most doctors are private corporations, and that
most testing is through private organizations.

Bottom line, is that if any improvement will lead to an improvement of
the health system, we must implement a payment system that does not
create an inverse relationship between the patient's health and the
doctors income, we have created a 'business that feeds off of
disease', not health.

Caesar J. B. Squitti


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